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So I'm a little pissed off at Blizz. During their open applications for a junior card designer, they required applicants to submit a card idea. From my cover letter, dated May 28, 2016:

Stratholme Night Watch (Neutral) (Rare)

5 Mana, 3/3

Battlecry: All enemy minions lose stealth.

Voice(human, perhaps a peasant turned militia or a footman/knight):

Appearance: “Who’s there?”

Attack: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”

Death: “To arms! (cough)”

Art: Human in Stratholme, prior to the culling. Holds a staff or pike in his right hand, left hand holds out a lantern. Camera is situated in an alley, and the Night Watch is peering into it.

In looking at Whispers of the Old Gods, I feel like there’s a lot of design space in an expansion for a stealth-heavy set, or one where there are cards that play off stealth. The Stratholme Night Watch would be a reasonable counter to the meta. 5 mana might be high for the body, but if there’s a card that relies on other minions having stealth to activate it’s ability, this turns into a very solid hoser very quickly. Given what it does, it could probably be an Epic alongside Big Game Hunter, but I feel a rare will make it much better for what it does. It’s narrower in scope than BGH, but still worthwhile that it would be a bomb in limited if stealth minions were a thing. Otherwise, it’s rather good against druid and rogue.

So, yeah. They lifted my card idea, didn't give me the job, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. The contract I agreed to when I submitted my application gave them full rights to the content.

Yes because stealth rogue would really get out of hand with Shadow rager...

lol Probably not with Shadow Rager, but before now only Hunters had a way to take away a concealed Gadgetzan Auctioneer without a full board clear. I like this card a lot. Now I don't have to Equality + Consecration when a Rogue only has an Auctioneer and like one other minion on board. Now I can just Streetwise Investigator and use my Truesilver Champion. Plus, with the new tools to buff Stealth minions, and the increase of Stealth minions in general, it's only natural we see a card like this. Secret Paladin became a thing, and Blizzard found that even Kezan Mystic wasn't strong enough. Enter Eater of Secrets

A good safety valve card. Miracle Rogue gets too powerful, this deals with the Gadgetzan Auctioneer. Beast Druid becomes a thing, this can disrupt the Stranglethorn Tiger into Menagerie Warden turn. Somehow Moroes breaks the meta, this card can fix it. There's needed to be an anti-stealth tech for a while, and this is as good as any. Just a nice card.

Okay, I really doubt anyone would actually use this as a silver bullet for Rogues. If you want to deal with Shadow Rager, you can just use any spell that hits random targets. It's good for dealing with a VanCleef that gets concealed, but other than that it's a decent pick for Arena and really nothing more.

Very nice to see anti-stealth that is accessible to everyone. With that said, it's pretty expensive. I'd rather see it priced at 2 or 3 mana, but if you already have a board, it could be decently effective.